Luckily, this did not happen to my mustang, but to my wife's car.
About 4 days ago, somewhere, somehow, we got something sticky on our hood. We just figured it needed washed so we took it to a car wash and they could not get it off. So today, we took it to a detailer and they told us it would be no problem to clean it off. So we left it there for an hour and they buffed it like there was no tomorrow. The car looked great except for what we thought was lint on the hood. We drove it around the parking lot (trying to get back onto the street) and noticed that the lint was flying off. Under closer inspection, the front of the hood has spider web shaped scratches all over it. We looked the car over and it's only on the front of the hood. If you take your fingernail and lightly run it across the hood you can catch the edge of the cracks.
Well, we pulled back into the shop and asked to speak to the manager. We were told that it must have been like that before we came in. We explained that we just had the car washed a few days ago to clean off the sticky stuff and there were absolutely no scratches on it. He then explained to us that it must be the age of the paint. I told him that the hood is the only place it appeared so it could not be the age. He then said it must be the heat of the engine may have weakened the paint.
Has anyone ever had this happen before? Is this something that can be polished out? I've attached a few pictures, but I have a really cheap camera.
Thanks for your help.
About 4 days ago, somewhere, somehow, we got something sticky on our hood. We just figured it needed washed so we took it to a car wash and they could not get it off. So today, we took it to a detailer and they told us it would be no problem to clean it off. So we left it there for an hour and they buffed it like there was no tomorrow. The car looked great except for what we thought was lint on the hood. We drove it around the parking lot (trying to get back onto the street) and noticed that the lint was flying off. Under closer inspection, the front of the hood has spider web shaped scratches all over it. We looked the car over and it's only on the front of the hood. If you take your fingernail and lightly run it across the hood you can catch the edge of the cracks.
Well, we pulled back into the shop and asked to speak to the manager. We were told that it must have been like that before we came in. We explained that we just had the car washed a few days ago to clean off the sticky stuff and there were absolutely no scratches on it. He then explained to us that it must be the age of the paint. I told him that the hood is the only place it appeared so it could not be the age. He then said it must be the heat of the engine may have weakened the paint.
Has anyone ever had this happen before? Is this something that can be polished out? I've attached a few pictures, but I have a really cheap camera.
Thanks for your help.